 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1838 - 566 páginas
...listen to her lover : ' Yestreen, when to the trembling string, The dance gaed through the lighted na', To thee my fancy took its wing, I sat, but neither heard nor saw : Tho' this was fair, and that was braw, And yon the toast of a' the town, I sighed, and said amang... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 796 páginas
...the stoure, A weary slave frae sun to sun ; Could I the rich reward secure, The lovely Mary Morison. Yestreen when to the trembling string, The dance gaed through the lighted ha', Though this was fair, and that wag braw, And yon the toast of a' the town, I sigh'd, and said among... | |
 | 1839 - 588 páginas
...but one that he wrote (so unwitherable is the heart of a true poet). Hear a verse of another : — " Yestreen when to the trembling string The dance gaed...thee my fancy took its wing, I sat, but neither heard or saw ; Though this was fair and that was braw, And yon the best of a' the town, / sigh'd, and said... | |
 | 1839 - 596 páginas
...but one that he wrote (so unwitherable is the heart of a true poet). Hear a verse of another : — " Yestreen when to the trembling string The dance gaed...thee my fancy took its wing, I sat, but neither heard or saw ; Though this was fair and that was braw, And yon the best of a' the town, I tigfi'd, and iaid... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 864 páginas
...fancy. Robertson'» History of Sc.olland. To thee my fancy took its wing, I sat, but neither heard or s-aw : Though this was fair, and that was braw, And yon the toast of л* the town. Burns. That a people beset with such nal and imaginary bugbears, should fancy themselves... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1840 - 872 páginas
...Lochroyan, She comes to st-ek her love ! Yestreen, when to the trembling string, The dance gaed thro' uer' t and blin', Spak' o : Of all the productions of Burns, the pathetic and deepest and most lasting hold of the mind. Such... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - 706 páginas
...reward secure, The lovely Mary Morrison. Yestreen, when to the trembling string, The dance gaed round the lighted ha'/ To thee my fancy took its wing —...that was braw.» And yon the toast of a' the town, 1 sigh'd, and said, amang them a', ' Ye are na Mary Morrison.' O Mary, canst thou wreck his peace,... | |
 | 1895 - 862 páginas
...the first time undeniably revealed : — Yestreen, when to the trembling string, The dance gaed thro' the lighted ha', To thee my fancy took its wing, I sat, but neither heard nor saw ; Tho' this was fair, and that was braw, And yon the toast of a' the town, I sigh'd, and said, amang... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 páginas
...despairing Than aught in the world beside—Jessy!" The conclusion of the other is as follows: " Yerfreen, when to the trembling string The dance gaed through...fancy took its wing, I sat, but neither heard nor saw. Tho' this was fair, and that was braw, And yon the toast of a' the town, I sighed, and said among them... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 páginas
...other is as follows : " Yestreen, when to the trembling string The dance gaed through the lighted ha't To thee my fancy took its wing, I sat, but neither heard nor saw. Tho' this was fair, and that was braw, And yon the toast of a' the town, I sighed, and said among them... | |
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The dance gaed thro' the lighted ha', To thee my fancy took its wing, I sat, but neither heard nor saw: Tho' this was fair, and that was braw, And yon the toast of a' the town, I sigh'd and said amang them a'; — "Ye are na Mary Morison! 
